Smoke and cinder conveyer



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M. J. WYATT.

SMOKE AND GINDER GONVEYER.

Inventor.

Attorney.

Patented July 21, 1896.

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M. J. WYATT. SMOKE AND GINDER GONVEYER.

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(No Model.)

' 4 Sheets-Sheet 3, M. J, WYATT.

' SMOKE AND GINDER GO NVEYER.

Patented July 21, 1896.

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(N0 ModeL) 4 Sheets-Sheet 4-. M. J. WYATT. SMOKE AND OINDER GONVEYER.

Patented July 21, 1896.

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Witnesses:

Attorney.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY J. WVYATT, OF RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA.

SMOKE AN D CINDER CONVEYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,298, dated July 21,1896.

' Application med January 4., 1896. Serial No. 574,347. (to model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY J. WVYATT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Raleigh, in the county of WVake and State of North Carolina,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smoke and CinderConveyers for Steam-Railway Trains, of which the following is so full,clear, and exact a description as will enable others skilled in the artto which my invention appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the locomotive and tender provided with my invention. Fig.2 is a top plan view of the same, showing a conveyer extending back overthe tender and showing its position when in use. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of a coach, showing my conveyer in position. Fig. 4 is adetail of a portion of the conveyer, showing an automatic valve anddeflector for admitting air to the conveyer. Fig. 5 is a detail sectionof one of the pipes. Fig. 6 is a detail in elevation of my conveyer,showing its connection with the smoke-stack and showing valves forcontrolling the direction of the draft.

The object of my invention is to provide a device by the use of whichthe smoke and cinders from a locomotive may be conveyed back the entirelength of the train, where they may be dropped along the track orcollected and deposited from time to time at will, whichever seems mostdesirable to the railroad company.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device by the use ofwhich prairie fires, burning of timber, and the destruction of suchsections of country, as well as the destruction of the track andtelegraph poles and railroad-fences, may be entirely obviated.

Another object of my invention is to construct a device bythe use ofwhich the disastrous effects of the accumulation of cinders, products ofcombustion, and smoke on the top of cars, on their floors, upholstery,and running-gear may be entirely obviated or at least reduced to aminimum.

lVith these objects in view, I provide a pipe A,which is connected witha smoke-stack B, and runs back to the rear of the tender. In directalinement with this pipe A is a funnel-shaped inlet C, secured to thefront of the smoke-stack. Within the funnel-shaped inlet I provide avalve D, operated by a lever E, pivotally connected with a second leverF. A third lever G is pivoted to the lever F at g, and is also securedto the second valve H in the upper portion of the smoke-stack above theline of the pipe A. The pipe A extends back to the point K, where it isprovided with branches L L, forming a Y, the rear ends of the pipes L Lconnected with pipes M M at either side of the top of the cab, tender,and coaches. The pipes M M are open at N, forming an inlet for the air;Deflectors or inletvalves 0 O are provided along the top of the pipes MM. These are pivotally secured to the pipes M M, and are automatic intheir action and will be opened by the action of the air, creating adraft into and through the pipes M M. Each deflector is provided with anupturned lip a a ateither end, which, by reason of its resistance to thecurrent of the air, will cause the valve to open. The pipes M M areconnected together between the cars and between the car and the tenderby flexible joints, which may be made by securing the sections of pipetogether telescopically, or they may be made by securing, by bands orrings, sections of flexible pipe between the rigid pipes on the train.Any suitable material may be used for this purpose, and I suggestasbestos as the most likely to be suitable for the purpose.

A rod P operates the valves in the smoke stack at the front and at thetop simultaneously, either opening the smoke-stack at the front andclosing it at the top, or opening it at the top and closing it at thefront. When the train is at a standstill or just starting out,

the valves should be turned so as to close the front and open the top,and as soon as the train gets in motion under fair headway, the positionof the valves should be reversed. Air will rush into the funnel-shapedopening in the front of the smoke-stack and across the smoke-stack; intothe pipe A, thence through the branches into the pipes M M, along thetop of the train, and air will enter the pipes M M at their front endsand also through openings beneath the deflectors, which openautomatically. At the rear end of the train the pipe is dropped down sothat the cinders will fall along the line of the track, or they may beallowed to accumulate in the section Q at the rear end of the train, andthey may be deposited at will at any desired place along the road.

The pipes are secured to the top of the 10- comotive and tender and carsby suitable brackets of metal, or may be fastened in any Way which maybe found advisable and 8X,

funnel and Valves of the pipe leading backward from the smoke-stack, thelateral branches connected with the side pipes back of their forwardends and the side pipes con.- nected' therewith, the latter being openat their forward ends the entire full area of the inside of the pipebeing clear and uninterrupted and in direct and uninterruptedconiinunication with outside air to admit air, and means for operatingthe said valves simultaneously by a single movement of an operating-rodopening one valve and closingthe other and vice versa, substantially asspecifled.

In testimony whereof I aflix in y signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

MARY J. XVYAT'I. \Vitnesses:

JOHN C. SCARBOROUGH, W. F. WYATT.

